# What is an American / Tv thing to do...?

An episode of [Anele and the Club on 947](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1439319789), 30 Sep 2026, 12 min.

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Anele has just confessed to eating ice cream straight out of the tub and now we’re questioning how many things we do because we’ve seen Americans do it on TV. Eating ice cream straight from the tub, putting your feet on the coffee table, having a giant fridge covered in magnets, saying “I’ll take a rain check”, drinking coffee in a massive takeaway cup…What’s something you do that is so American / so TV, even though nobody in your family ever did it growing up? Hang out with Anele and The Club on 947 every weekday morning. Popular radio hosts Anele Mdoda, Frankie du Toit, Thembekile Mrototo, and Cindy Poluta take fun to the next level with the biggest guests, hottest conversations, feel-good vibes, and the best music to get you going! Kick-start your day with the best way to wake up in Joburg Connect with Anele and The Club on 947 via WhatsApp at 084 000 0947 or call the studio on 011 88 38 947 Thank you for listening. Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 6 am to 9 am (South African time) https://buff.ly/y34dh8Y For more from the show and catch-up podcasts, visit Primedia+ https://buff.ly/K59GRzu Subscribe to the 947 weekly newsletter here https://buff.ly/hf9IuR9 Let’s keep the conversation going online: 947 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/947Joburg 947 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@947joburg 947 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/947joburg 947 on X: https://x.com/947 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Wake up with a bang.
[0:02] Speaker 2: Hey, wake up! Anele and the Club on 947. This
[0:27] Speaker 2: is not the movies, said my child to me this weekend.
[0:30] Speaker 1: Really?
[0:30] Speaker 2: Why?
[0:31] Speaker 1: What did you do?
[0:31] Speaker 2: Do you know those ice cream tubs, right?
[0:34] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[0:35] Speaker 2: Like, it's round and it's... It's family size, but it's round.
[0:39] Speaker 2: It's not big. It's not small. I was sitting this
[0:41] Speaker 2: weekend eating it by myself. So I literally, usually you
[0:45] Speaker 2: would take the ice cream out of the deep freezer
[0:48] Speaker 2: and then take a few scoops into a bowl with
[0:50] Speaker 2: a teaspoon and then you go sit down.
[0:52] Speaker 1: Correct.
[0:52] Speaker 2: So now they found me sprawled all over the couch
[0:56] Speaker 2: in the lounge.
[0:56] Speaker 1: With a tub of ice cream?
[0:57] Speaker 2: Eating out of the tub. And my son's like, what
[0:59] Speaker 2: are you doing? And I'm like, I'm eating ice cream.
[1:01] Speaker 2: What does it look like I'm doing? Planting trees. And
[1:03] Speaker 2: then he said, this is not the movies. You can't
[1:05] Speaker 2: just be eating ice cream out of the tub. That
[1:07] Speaker 2: only happens in the movies. And I was just like,
[1:10] Speaker 2: for an 11-year-old, that's quite an observation. Because yes, I
[1:13] Speaker 2: did look like I was going through a breakup. I
[1:16] Speaker 2: was going to ask, because it's really tough to sit
[1:18] Speaker 2: and eat. Did you eat the whole tub?
[1:20] Speaker 1: Because getting through a whole tub of ice cream, that's
[1:23] Speaker 1: a significant thing to get right, firstly.
[1:25] Speaker 3: Extraordinary.
[1:25] Speaker 1: Extraordinary. Because I can't imagine sitting with a Country Fresh,
[1:29] Speaker 1: a tub of Country Fresh.
[1:29] Speaker 2: That two-liter one that doubles up as a scuff tin. Yes. Yes.
[1:33] Speaker 1: Like, that thing is uncomfortable. Because you see it in
[1:34] Speaker 1: the movies, always sitting eating ice cream from the container.
[1:38] Speaker 4: Yeah, but also, like, when you watch it in the movies, right?
[1:40] Speaker 4: I think it's, like, a very American thing to do because, like,
[1:43] Speaker 4: a daughter goes through a breakup and a mom's like,
[1:45] Speaker 4: here's a tub of ice cream.
[1:46] Speaker 2: I have never done that. Like, who does that? Finish
[1:48] Speaker 2: the tub of ice cream?
[1:49] Speaker 4: No, who gives this?
[1:50] Speaker 2: I've never.
[1:52] Speaker 4: My friends and I have never used a tub of
[1:54] Speaker 4: ice cream to get through an emotional situation.
[1:58] Speaker 2: It's a bottle of wine. She's just like amateurish.
[2:02] Speaker 4: It's just such an American thing.
[2:04] Speaker 2: So this is what I wanted to speak about this morning.
[2:07] Speaker 1: Right, right.
[2:09] Speaker 2: What things are you seeing people do and you're just like,
[2:11] Speaker 2: that's just an American TV thing to do. Like, for instance,
[2:15] Speaker 2: having an entire table full of food and then you
[2:19] Speaker 2: just grab an apple and you run out. That is
[2:21] Speaker 2: not South African. I would rather be late to where
[2:24] Speaker 2: I'm going than leave a table full of food. We're
[2:27] Speaker 2: not doing that.
[2:27] Speaker 1: Yeah, but all of our mothers would have said... So
[2:30] Speaker 1: firstly with the ice cream, because now you've got your
[2:32] Speaker 1: spoon digging back into the ice cream tub. So even
[2:36] Speaker 1: if you don't finish it now, we have to eat
[2:37] Speaker 1: from what you've put in your mouth there.
[2:40] Speaker 2: I had such a rude statement to make from that,
[2:42] Speaker 2: but I'm already skating on thin ice with the PCCSA,
[2:46] Speaker 2: so I'm going to keep quiet.
[2:47] Speaker 1: On that one. Can I tell you what I've seen?
[2:50] Speaker 1: Because I know you've mentioned this, right? Cool drinks in
[2:56] Speaker 1: my fridge. I mean, I think most fridges. If we
[2:59] Speaker 1: buy for the family, it's like a two litre.
[3:00] Speaker 2: It's a two litre. We have cans.
[3:03] Speaker 1: You yourself.
[3:04] Speaker 2: In my household, we have cans.
[3:05] Speaker 1: Like the little ones.
[3:07] Speaker 2: You saw this morning, I was drinking a can of Coca-Cola.
[3:09] Speaker 2: That came from my fridge. I buy it as cans
[3:12] Speaker 2: because I found that the two litre, the acid will
[3:15] Speaker 2: run out.
[3:16] Speaker 1: It'll go flat. It goes flat, yeah.
[3:18] Speaker 2: It goes flat, right? So the only way we can
[3:20] Speaker 2: ensure that everyone has a great experience of the said
[3:22] Speaker 2: beverage is to do it in cans.
[3:24] Speaker 1: But that is something you see in the movies.
[3:26] Speaker 2: Extremely American of me. Extremely American. 011-8838-947. What is extremely
[3:33] Speaker 2: American and extremely movie, but you either want to do
[3:37] Speaker 2: it or you are currently doing it?
[3:40] Speaker 1: Right. Taking trains across the country. That, I've, Who's doing that?
[3:46] Speaker 2: Very American.
[3:46] Speaker 1: Just jumping onto trains.
[3:48] Speaker 2: Very European.
[3:50] Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean just, you know, when you sneak
[3:52] Speaker 1: onto a train. In America, it always feels like people
[3:55] Speaker 1: are sneaking onto trains to go across state lines for
[3:58] Speaker 1: some reason.
[4:00] Speaker 2: Or waking up to hang out with your friends before
[4:03] Speaker 2: you guys go to work.
[4:05] Speaker 1: Who does that?
[4:05] Speaker 2: Who does that? Americans do. Every sitcom, Big Bang Theory, Friends.
[4:10] Speaker 2: So true. Living Single, all of them. They do this
[4:13] Speaker 2: thing where they all hang out at one apartment before
[4:15] Speaker 2: they go to work. No, no one's broke, but we're
[4:17] Speaker 2: all sharing an apartment.
[4:19] Speaker 1: Who does that in real life?
[4:21] Speaker 2: And how many, I mean, how many apartments, how many
[4:23] Speaker 2: flats have got six bedrooms?
[4:25] Speaker 1: Exactly.
[4:25] Speaker 2: South Africa's answer to that is a commune.
[4:28] Speaker 1: Right.
[4:28] Speaker 2: Now, now we're talking.
[4:30] Speaker 1: Yes, like house parties. Do you see that in the movies?
[4:33] Speaker 1: At a commune.
[4:34] Speaker 2: Yes.
[4:34] Speaker 1: It's like a student commune.
[4:36] Speaker 2: It's extremely American. Or like buying those really big boxes
[4:41] Speaker 2: of pizza.
[4:41] Speaker 1: Yes, huge.
[4:42] Speaker 2: The ones that look like they're a meter long.
[4:44] Speaker 4: Yeah, I was watching some show with my kids the
[4:46] Speaker 4: other day, and it's one from the 2000s. And there's this, like,
[4:50] Speaker 4: these kids having adult conversation and moving in together. I
[4:53] Speaker 4: said to my child, you realize this would be like
[4:55] Speaker 4: you moving in with somebody now and getting married and
[4:57] Speaker 4: having a kid.
[4:58] Speaker 2: And still going to school. I was like, how is
[5:00] Speaker 2: this possible?
[5:01] Speaker 1: Twilight.
[5:02] Speaker 2: Twilight.
[5:02] Speaker 4: If it's something like that, I'll think of it.
[5:04] Speaker 2: High school kids running around as adults. You're just like,
[5:06] Speaker 2: what are you doing? 011-8838-947. What is so American? And
[5:11] Speaker 2: it's thanks to the movies. And now we're starting to
[5:13] Speaker 2: replicate it. You're like, no, we don't do this.
[5:15] Speaker 1: We don't do it this way.
[5:16] Speaker 2: We don't do it this way. Yeah. 084-0000-947. Talking back
[5:22] Speaker 2: to your parents.
[5:23] Speaker 1: Oh, wait.
[5:23] Speaker 2: We are doing that here now. It was very American.
[5:26] Speaker 1: It was very American.
[5:27] Speaker 2: It's very American, and now it's found its way onto
[5:29] Speaker 2: our shows. But you know what's not American? A varum clap.
[5:34] Speaker 2: Send you back to America. Return to send. It's a movie.
[5:39] Speaker 2: Let's go to the movies. Things that only happen on TV,
[5:43] Speaker 2: and you are finding that they are slowly creeping in
[5:46] Speaker 2: to our everyday lives. My son found me eating a
[5:51] Speaker 2: tub of ice cream out of the ice cream tub.
[5:53] Speaker 2: And he was just like, this is very American.
[5:55] Speaker 1: Of you, ma'am.
[5:56] Speaker 2: What are you doing?
[5:57] Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't do that. Please use a bowl because
[5:59] Speaker 1: you've told him that. Use a bowl and then you
[6:02] Speaker 1: dish into the bowl and that's how you eat ice cream.
[6:04] Speaker 2: Do you know which ones I'm talking about here? Oreo
[6:06] Speaker 2: has it. Cadbury has it. They're just like round. That
[6:10] Speaker 2: thing for me screams big enough for one person anyway.
[6:13] Speaker 1: That's a litre of ice cream. I'm pretty sure of it.
[6:15] Speaker 1: 500 mils. No, it must be a litre. Surely.
[6:19] Speaker 2: It can't be a litre.
[6:20] Speaker 1: I'll check it.
[6:21] Speaker 2: There's no way I ate a litre of ice cream
[6:23] Speaker 2: by myself.
[6:24] Speaker 1: Is there no way?
[6:26] Speaker 2: Is there no way, Anele? Is there no way? Have
[6:29] Speaker 2: you seen yourself? 18 wheels of justice. I think the
[6:34] Speaker 2: most TV-slash-American thing ever is people not bathing. Like, people
[6:38] Speaker 2: just wake up and get dressed. Like, hey!
[6:42] Speaker 4: What we do that's very American is my son plays
[6:45] Speaker 4: ice hockey.
[6:46] Speaker 2: I still can't get over the extremely American thing is
[6:51] Speaker 2: the entire pig on the dinner table.
[6:54] Speaker 4: Yes!
[6:54] Speaker 1: The apple in the mouth.
[6:56] Speaker 2: When I went to university, all I wanted was a fraternity, sorority.
[7:03] Speaker 5: That kind of thing, like with.
[7:05] Speaker 2: The parties, those big parties.
[7:07] Speaker 1: I don't know if you folks remember the scene with
[7:10] Speaker 1: Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black where he eats out
[7:13] Speaker 1: of a peanut butter jar. Well, that's what I do. Yum, yum.
[7:18] Speaker 1: That's also not allowed.
[7:20] Speaker 2: And also, of course it was Brad Pitt. That's why
[7:24] Speaker 2: it's allowed. Sir, do you look like Brad Pitt?
[7:27] Speaker 1: No.
[7:28] Speaker 2: Don't do it.
[7:29] Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, this is the conversation, right? So
[7:31] Speaker 1: let's just be honest with each other. When Brad Pitt's
[7:33] Speaker 1: doing it, it looks different on camera. Like you with
[7:38] Speaker 1: a bottle of black catnip butter. You know what I'm saying?
[7:44] Speaker 1: It looks different.
[7:45] Speaker 2: Another thing that we're doing now is drinking out of
[7:49] Speaker 2: those red cups when you have a party.
[7:51] Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
[7:51] Speaker 2: Those red plastic cups.
[7:52] Speaker 1: Yeah, in the movies always, eh?
[7:54] Speaker 2: That is incredibly American of us. And now every bottle
[7:57] Speaker 2: store in South Africa sells either the blue cups or
[7:59] Speaker 2: the red cups. And every time I drink out of that,
[8:01] Speaker 2: I feel like I'm like in a sorority, you know, Alphabeta,
[8:04] Speaker 2: Mata Freda. Watile.
[8:11] Speaker 3: Hello.
[8:12] Speaker 2: Hello, baby. How did I say your name?
[8:14] Speaker 1: Watile.
[8:14] Speaker 2: Watile.
[8:15] Speaker 3: Watile, yes.
[8:16] Speaker 2: Watile. How are you?
[8:18] Speaker 3: I'm fine.
[8:18] Speaker 2: How are you? We're great. What's such an American thing
[8:21] Speaker 2: to do and we're doing it here?
[8:23] Speaker 3: So me and my friends, we make like very last
[8:26] Speaker 3: minute plans, right?
[8:27] Speaker 2: Okay.
[8:28] Speaker 3: So during exams, we'll just like say, let's go to
[8:31] Speaker 3: a cafe and study.
[8:33] Speaker 2: Like we went to Mug.
[8:34] Speaker 3: And Bean and we were studying. And we'll just like say, oh,
[8:38] Speaker 3: let's go to McDonald's and like get an ice cream
[8:41] Speaker 3: or something. And then recently on Saturday, my friend Taslyn,
[8:45] Speaker 3: she was like in the chat, in the group chat,
[8:47] Speaker 3: she was like, guys, let's go watch a movie. And
[8:50] Speaker 3: then we went to go watch Avengers Endgame.
[8:54] Speaker 1: You just left and walked out.
[8:57] Speaker 2: Very American. Yeah. No, I want to go back to the,
[9:01] Speaker 2: let's go to a Starbucks and study. Very American. And
[9:05] Speaker 2: then you're like, I'm going to grab a slushy. I'm
[9:07] Speaker 2: going to grab a frappuccino or an iced coffee. And
[9:10] Speaker 2: then we'll just like go over our math homework. Very American. Yes.
[9:16] Speaker 1: Did you guys get any studying done would be the
[9:19] Speaker 1: question I'd ask and my mom would ask me. Did
[9:21] Speaker 1: you study?
[9:21] Speaker 3: Yeah, we did.
[9:22] Speaker 1: Really?
[9:23] Speaker 2: Yeah, we did.
[9:23] Speaker 3: We studied life science and some geography.
[9:27] Speaker 2: Now that is not American.
[9:30] Speaker 1: Life sciences and geography. Geography is not American.
[9:32] Speaker 2: Geography, not American. Well, Dile, have a good day, baby girl.
[9:37] Speaker 2: Freki Sang in Alberton.
[9:39] Speaker 5: Hi, Nile.
[9:40] Speaker 2: How are you, darling?
[9:42] Speaker 5: I'm well, thank you.
[9:43] Speaker 2: We are fantastic. Am I saying your name correctly?
[9:47] Speaker 1: Yes.
[9:47] Speaker 2: Okay, talk to us. What is so American to do?
[9:51] Speaker 5: My son, he's got this thing where he'll say, Mom,
[9:54] Speaker 5: can I please borrow $ 2? Or he'll say, I'm so tired,
[9:58] Speaker 5: I walked five miles. And I'm like, dude, we're in
[10:02] Speaker 5: South Africa.
[10:02] Speaker 2: It's rands and kilometers. Come back. Please.
[10:06] Speaker 1: His mom, can I have some dollars?
[10:08] Speaker 2: Oh, my word. Because now the onus is you to
[10:11] Speaker 2: calculate how much $ 2 is.
[10:12] Speaker 5: No, I don't think he understands the conversion. He's convinced
[10:17] Speaker 5: it's just the two rands he wants. But he calls
[10:20] Speaker 5: it in dollars.
[10:21] Speaker 1: How old is he?
[10:22] Speaker 5: He's five dollars. He's nine.
[10:24] Speaker 1: No, he should know.
[10:26] Speaker 2: Is it watching too much YouTube?
[10:30] Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. The other day he said, don't forget to
[10:34] Speaker 5: pay for the excursion, mom. It's five dollars. Five hundred dollars.
[10:37] Speaker 5: I was like, I'm not taking you on an excursion
[10:39] Speaker 5: for five hundred dollars.
[10:40] Speaker 1: It's cool.
[10:40] Speaker 2: For $ 500, you can sit right here. Because there was
[10:43] Speaker 2: a time when my son was watching a lot of YouTube,
[10:46] Speaker 2: but he was like six years old then, six, seven.
[10:48] Speaker 2: And everything was a sidewalk. I'm like, oh, walkie pavement. Exactly.
[10:53] Speaker 5: He also said, I'm so tired. I walk like five blocks. Miles.
[10:58] Speaker 2: I'm like, one of those miles. And this is why
[11:02] Speaker 2: it's so important for us to create our own content
[11:06] Speaker 2: and have our own localized shows. Because there was a
[11:09] Speaker 2: time when the kids were like, yeah, we're by the bleachers.
[11:12] Speaker 2: I'm like, bleachers? Pavilion.
[11:14] Speaker 1: Oh, pavilion.
[11:15] Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying? But that's because if
[11:17] Speaker 2: you consume American content, that's like.
[11:20] Speaker 1: You start speaking like that.
[11:21] Speaker 2: You start speaking like that and that's your norm. Look
[11:23] Speaker 2: at it with your little ones, the ones that we're
[11:25] Speaker 2: all watching Peppa Pig. Every child goes through a phase
[11:28] Speaker 2: where they've got like a bit of a British accent
[11:29] Speaker 2: because of Peppa Pig.
[11:31] Speaker 1: Which I find cute and hilarious.
[11:34] Speaker 2: It's cute and hilarious when they are four. When they're seven, eight,
[11:37] Speaker 2: it's obnoxious.
[11:38] Speaker 1: Do you have a British accent?
[11:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Who wants a child to speak like, oh,
[11:42] Speaker 2: dear mother, here you win. Mother, come on. It's so
[11:48] Speaker 2: American to leave all the kids' toys and bicycles out
[11:52] Speaker 2: in the front lawn and not having a fence around
[11:55] Speaker 2: the house. In my estate where I stay, we do
[11:58] Speaker 2: trick or treat every Halloween.
[12:00] Speaker 1: What's very American that I do is... I smoke briskets
[12:04] Speaker 1: and I smoke it for the American Embassy.
[12:07] Speaker 2: Back to making your morning.
[12:09] Speaker 1: Back on LA and the club.
[12:11] Speaker 2: I love this show.
[12:12] Speaker 1: On 947.

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